A 26-year-old from Yeovil has been found guilty of sexually abusing a young girl who had also been targeted by his father.

Tatunton Crown Court heard harrowing evidence including the moment he told her: "What he does to you? I’m going to do it too, so beware."

Jonathan Lee Egginton, aged 26, of St Patricks Road, has been on trial this week facing charges of causing or citing a girl under the age of 13 - the same victim - to engage in sexual activity.

Today, he was found guilty of both charges.

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His father, Frazer John Egginton, aged 47, of Westfield Road in Yeovil had already admitted three charges of sexual assault of child under 13, two charges of sexual activity in the presence of a child, and rape of a child under 13. He is due to be sentenced in December.

During the trial, prosecutor, Charles Thomas told a jury of six women and six men at Taunton Crown Court the allegations came to light after a friend discovered a notebook kept by the young girl.

"What was in that notebook disturbed the friend so much that the police were called," he said.

When interviewed by specially trained police officers, the girl spoke about the abuse that Frazer Egginton had been inflicting on her, but did not tell them that she had also been targeted by his son.

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"Some time later, the girl told her friend that she had been feeling guilty because she hadn't told the police what Jonathan had been doing," Mr Charles said.

As the trial got underway, the jury sat in silence as they watched the young girl's police interview, in which she matter-of-factly detailed the abuse she says had been inflicted on her, using graphic sexual terms.

She told the police that she felt a 'shiver go down her spine', when he Jonathon told her: "What he does to you, I'm going to do it to, so beware."

"I said 'please, stop. Stop, stop'," she said. "But he just forced it."

Under the guidance of defense barrister Patrick Mason, Jonathan Egginton told the court he had been bullied at school when he was younger, before dropping out to be homeschooled.